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TIL painting one blade of a wind turbine black could cut bird strikes by up to 70%.

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5VXKr TIL Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines is the largest U.S. military cemetery overseas. The cemetery covers 152 acres, contains 17,206 graves, and has the largest number of graves of any cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II.
a8nDb TIL of the Wild Dolphin Project & of its founder Dr Denise Herzing. For the last 35 years they have been studying & learning how to communicate with wild dolphins. She describes in one of her books how a group of dolphins sensed the death of a passenger on her boat & escorted the boat back to shore.
e0kKb TIL in 2008, a British man was found dead at his apartment- he had been decapitated by a chainsaw. He was the last tenant in a block of flats which had been cleared for redevelopment. Police said his death was not suspicious. Post-mortem tests showed he died of a "complete transection of the neck".
EjP0 TIL there is an $11,000 royalty fee a climber must pay to the Nepal government to climb Mount Everest. They earn around $3.25 million every season.
lJo5 TIL Legendary daredevil Evel Knievel got his stagename from a prison guard. The man in the next cell was named “Knofel” and the guard started calling them “Awful Knofel” and “Evil Knievel”.